Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top management of the division rated one of the departments as creative and innovative and one as very problematic from that aspect . |
| 2 | If the tests were truly designed for the control of ‘ anti-social influences in the arts ’ , as the Report said , then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers ' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair , the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries . |
| 3 | The 40-year-old told one of the sisters if anyone asked who the father of her baby daughter was she should lie and say it was her boyfriend , Leeds Crown Court was told . |
| 4 | William Bailey , an engine driver , said he recognised one of the guns as one he had sold to Henry Tidbury . |
| 5 | I recognised one of the Commandos as someone I knew before the war . |
| 6 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 7 | They became famous as the Dambusters when they wrecked the Ruhr valley dams with Barnes Wallis 's revolutionary bouncing bombs after training in Derbyshire 's Derwent valley . |
| 8 | as if things were not bad enough without those little bastards turning up to torment us , ’ remarked one of the medics as he tried to pack a shell dressing into a large abdominal wound . |
| 9 | Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains . |
| 10 | Rostov asked one of the guards if the man sitting on the cart was the Khan , but the trooper only grinned insolently at him and replied in his own tongue . |
| 11 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 12 | And er after that it was just well every man for himself I never really saw any of the guys except for the o one guy who was on the platform with me at the time . |
| 13 | He went red to the temples as he forced a ff on the last phrases , and shyly stuck a hand on his heart in emphasis ; while all fell silent and lowered their eyes , wondering at that excruciating delight which Alfredo experienced -Rosalba especially , Cati indifferently . |
| 14 | ‘ How 's the man ? ’ enquired one of the toughs as Bull strode up and joined them . |
| 15 | US Coast Guard Commander Larry Mizell quoted one of the survivors as saying that during the storm ‘ many of the people went to one side of the vessel , which may have contributed to the problem they had . ’ |
| 16 | The problem was resolved by writing our own information retrieval program which met most of the requirements as they then existed and , with much thought being given on the subject , was designed to be flexible enough to cater for the majority of future needs . |
| 17 | GRAEME SOUNESS sat helpless in the stands as fiery Liverpool were extinguished by the ice-cool professionalism of Spartak Moscow . |
| 18 | Ace recognized some of the plants as similar to Earth species ; the others , the weird-looking ones , she decided were native to the planet . |
| 19 | Two days later he actually came , an oldish man , at least sixty , and valued two of the cabinets as worth £500 apiece . |